bug#32801: 26.1; (shell-command-to-string command) discrepancy in GUI vs terminal

[Jayesh Bhat]

It seems like that. My only reason to fire up Emacs from the Terminal was to pass command-line arguments like --debug-init but since I use Spacemacs this is builtin via the restart-emacs package. However, I didn't dig in much to see how command-line arguments are passed through GUI restart. 

https://github.com/iqbalansari/restart-emacs

Best wishes,

Jayesh

On Sat, 22 Sep 2018 at 08:36, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> From: Jayesh Bhat <jayeshbhat55@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2018 02:53:25 +0200
>
> 3a. Open emacs from Terminal
>
> # open -n /Applications/Emacs.app --args -q
>
> M-x ielm
>
> *** Welcome to IELM ***  Type (describe-mode) for help.
> ELISP> (shell-command-to-string "pwd")
> " ]7;file://JayeshMacBook.local/Users/jayesh /Users/jayesh\n"
>
> 3b. Open /Applications/Emacs.app via double click on GUI icon
>
> - M-x ielm
>
> *** Welcome to IELM ***  Type (describe-mode) for help.
> ELISP> (shell-command-to-string "pwd")
> "/Users/jayesh\n"

AFAIU, that's how macOS apps behave in terminal and in GUI mode.
Emacs just reflects the truth.

But I'll let macOS experts chime in.